This essay was originally posted on Memorial Day, 2012 and is offered today (with some updating) as a reminder of what this holiday is about. For more, have a look at Fred Rasmussen’s article in The Baltimore Sun. Some of his data is different from mine; no matter, though, as the meaning is consistent. JA… [read more]
Cut The Crap – Part Two
Debt Ceiling Crisis Averted – This Time Reports last night said that President Biden and the Republican hostage takers had come to an agreement such that the world economy will not crash next week. I’m glad, of course, that the sky will not fall, but I find it abhorrent that extortion has been rewarded. Again…. [read more]
Cut The Crap – Part One
Broken News In a stunning display of muscular, applause sucking fantasies, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) announced that he is a candidate to become his party’s nominee for President of the United States. He dutifully blamed President Biden for all problems, stopping just short of blaming Biden for mosquito bites. As significant, he claimed credit for… [read more]
What It’s Really About – Part Two
It isn’t about banning or burning books, or refusing to do anything to stop the mass shooting carnage or disrupting school board meetings by spewing hatred or restricting or eliminating abortion services and other women’s healthcare or marching with Tiki torches and swastika flags or moronically seig heil-ing while wearing black ski masks and sunglasses… [read more]
The Madness
Ed. note: Due to the Moms Demand Action – Advocacy Day ’23 yesterday, “What It’s Really About – Part Two” has been moved to this Sunday, May 21. It’s been ten and a half months since the brutal July 4th mass shooting in Highland Park, IL that killed seven innocent people and wounded 48 other… [read more]
What It’s Really About – Part One
The Diabolical Debt Ceiling Everyone knows that if the U.S. defaults on its debt obligations that the sky will fall all over the world. We will sink into a recession that lays off over 8 million American workers, leaving them without a way to support their families. Interest rates will soar, making everything way more… [read more]
Inflation
First: E. Jean Carroll Won her civil lawsuit against Donald Trump for sexual abuse and defamation of character. She was awarded $5 million in this unanimous verdict. I hope she publishes a picture of the check. Trump responded to the verdict on his imitation of Twitter, “I have absolutely no idea who this woman is…. [read more]
Potpourri v19.0
E. Jean Carroll’s Civil Suit against Donald Trump for battery and defamation is nearly over. She presented her case and then Trump called no witnesses. The closest he came to testifying was in his deposition, played for the jury, where he defended himself by claiming that Carroll was not his type. That got me to… [read more]
No, We Aren’t Better Than This & The Top Idiot Award
Just when you thought you had seen Marjorie Taylor Greene’s* most despicable demonstration of degeneracy, she somehow went even lower. In a House hearing she declared that only biological moms are real moms. To hell with you do-gooders who open your hearts and adopt or foster kids. You’re not real moms, according to Greene. Neither… [read more]
I’m So Old
I’m so old that I remember when passing the debt ceiling was just a box that Congress checked each year to ensure the full faith and credit of the United States. There was no conflating future spending with payment for past spending. There was no threatening of our economy. We just paid our bills. I… [read more]
